Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old...
Friends, Associates
Felicia Hemans
FH
was by this time a major literary attraction. Rose Lawrence
describes visiters [sic] and strangers, with letters of introduction,—sketchers and pencillers.
Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray, 1836.
Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
.
Butler, Lady Eleanor, Sarah Ponsonby, and Caroline Hamilton. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages.
MT
's diary was destroyed after her death, though some passages were copied first by Caroline Tighe Hamilton
. Hamilton's transcript is in the National Library of Ireland
.
Tighe, Mary. The Works of Mary Tighe, Published and Unpublished. Editor Henchy, Patrick, No. 6, Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 1957.
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Timeline
2 June 2002
Caroline Hamilton
and Ann Daniels
completed their trek to the North Pole, two years after successfully reaching the South Pole.
Texts
Butler, Lady Eleanor, Sarah Ponsonby, and Caroline Hamilton. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages.
Butler, Lady Eleanor, Sarah Ponsonby, and Caroline Hamilton. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton. Editor Bell, Eva Mary, Macmillan, 1930.